[IC] High Grades

[Filisalot]

Brady was busy practicing with the boys, doing lay-ups, shooting hoops, and playing some pick up matches to practice routes and paths that they would practice during games. He was sweaty, and heaving as they ran around on the basketball court. He'd noticed the cheerleaders that were there, practicing with them. A few of the boys they were with would tease them as they shared the court, even letting a few of them take some shots. Brady was too focused on getting better at the game to care about the cheerleaders, they were just a distraction to him, and he'd let the others fall for them if they wanted to.

He had the ball in his hands during a pick-up match when they were practicing a few routes when Mia came into the gym to hang out with Lana, and he'd not noticed her at all while he took his three-point shot, swishing it through the net. "Damn right!" He said happily as the other team checked the ball, and began bringing it back down the court. He still hadn't noticed her until the ball had been turned over, and he was passed the ball. He caught her in the corner of his eye, quickly getting a glimpse of the wardrobe she'd worn today. Cleavage, and tights is what he personally blamed for the next few moments of his own feet catching themselves, and him falling forward, and sliding across the gym floor like a clown.

Frustrated from his concentration breaking, he pumped his right fist against the ground a couple times before he began to get up, "Damnit," He swore to himself, and a few of his own friends who began to come over to help him up, he thanked them for their help, and limped for a few moments before he stretched his legs behind his back, a few had asked him what happened, and he simply said that he'd caught his feet on each other while he wasn't paying attention.

[Khat]

Mia was stood talking with Lana for a few moments before she noticed one of the 'basket ball guys' fall pretty much on his face. She tried to hide her laugh the best she could by biting her bottom lip. When the guy stood up she noticed it was Brady and she let out a small laugh, trying to conceal it the best she could, her lips were trembling as she was trying so damn hard not to laugh out loud. Once she saw him limping she had to bite her bottom lip once again to stop herself from laughing. She always found it hilarious when someone hurt them selves, she was a bit of a sadist like that. Lana gave Mia a 'Don't laugh!' look which just made it harder for her to keep a straight face. Mia shook her head and took a deep breath. "Okay, c'mon girly, lets get some pics for your cheer page" She said after she had composed herself.

Lana happily obliged and ran over to the rest of the girls, Mia followed, walking. She barely ever ran, she hated getting sweaty. "Okay Guuuuuurls lets do this!" Lana yelled at them happily. They all begun their routine, holding certain parts for a a few seconds longer than they usually would so Mia could make sure she got a good few pics of everything. They would pick from all the shots after for which ones to upload. Mia was rather a good photographer. At high school she dabbled in photography for the school paper.

[Filisalot]

Brady kept playing, this time though, he was on fire. Almost every time the ball came to him, it was over. Three pointers, from the paint, passes. He was doing everything to move the ball forward and into the paint of the other team they were playing against. "Damn right" He said as they finished up the pick-up match, ahead by two points. He walked over to the side-lines, grabbing some water, and drenching his mouth with several unforgiving huge gulps of water. Satisfying his thirst, he looked over to where Mia, and the rest of the cheerleaders were. He finally decided to make his way over, "Aren't you a glutton for punishment," He commented to Mia as he approached.

He was referencing the fact that even despite the cheerleaders attitudes towards her, she was still willing to take pictures of them. "Why are you even here, aren't normal people like you supposed to not be here?" He said to her, rather bluntly since they'd had their small battle yesterday.

[Khat]

She saw him come over and she nodded over to the Lana to take five. She turned her camera off and took a seat to have a drink, the gym was getting rather warm. She hated it. She frowned at his comment "I'm not normal, if you couldn't tell I kinda pride myself on that fact... and I'm here because Lana asked for a favour, that's all, the other girls can go fuck a monkey for all I care" She said, taking a sip of her 'Relentless' energy drink. "Lana wanted me to do some pictures for the Cheer group page to advertise for more recruits for next year as some of the older girls will be leaving, now what do you want? Other than to make sarcastic comments?" she added the last question with a deeper frown as she looked directly at him now.

[Filisalot]

"Yeah, you're get-ups a little above par," He commented, "I saw you and Lana seem to be friends, since when did you let one of them get into your head?" He asked, looking from her, over to Lana who was breaking with the rest of her cheersquad. "They do nothing but sit here, and bug us while we practice," He said, "Fuck a monkey, huh? That supposed to be a jab at me?" He frowned back at her, clearly un-amused by what he interpreted as her being racist towards him. "Didn't take you to be one of those people who loved the idea of pre 1867," He said to her, "I just came here to see what you were up to, but nevermind now," He said, turning around.

He sighed out of frustration, no-one but her could take the piss out of him like she had just done. "Make sure you get some good pics," He said to her finally before heading back out onto the court as their small break ended.

[Khat]

She frowned as he walked off "I wasn't being racist you absolute tit!" She yelled after him. She didn't have a racist bone in her body. She didn't see the point to racism, It was pointless and just hurtful. She was actually rather hurt that he would assume that. At high school she stuck up for a black girl, her school was predominantly white and a black girl was getting picked on for her hair being 'weird and wiry and that her skin was 'poo' coloured'. She actually teared up a little as her feelings were quite hurt. She had never been called racist before. That was one of the only things she HADN'T been called and now she could tick that off in her name called book. Lana heard Mia yell at Brady about not being racist and she ran over and saw Mia was tearing up. Mia just shook her head "I'll e-mail the pictures to you later, I.. I have to go" she said quickly before she grabbed her bag and almost ran out of the gym.

Lana frowned and looked over at Brady and gave him a disgusted as she walked over to him "What the HELL is wrong with you?! Just because you're black you think you can throw out the 'racist card' all the time?! Mia is as far from racist as you can get! Shes a tree hugger and loves all forms of life!" She glared at him "Mia doesnt get upset easily anymore and you have basically just made her cry. I hope you're happy with yourself!" She gave him a death glare as she turned and walked back over to her girls.

Mia had made her way home rather quickly. She couldnt be seen crying in public. As soon as her door was shut she burst into tears. How could he think I was being RACIST?! she was so upset. After a while she calmed down and cooled herself off. She looked in the mirror and grimaced. Her makeup was everywhere it shouldnt be. She wiped it all off and re applied it for the party that night. Though now she really really really didnt want to go now. But a promise is a promise she said as she heard her phone go, it was Lana "Hey, hope u OK My sexy goth gurl, you get your sex on for the party 2nite, I will make u feel better <3 xoxoxo" Mia smiled.

Once it got time to get ready she went to her wardrobe and picked out her favourite purple and black latex dress. It showed off her cleavage and was basically a second skin. It was short too. She wore ripped fishnets and some spiked Demonia heels as well as her fake black woollen hair dreads. She looked in the mirror as she checked out her finished product and smiled. Once she was happy she grabbed a coffin shaped bag and made her way out of the door.

[Filisalot]

He heard her yell at him, calling him an absolute tit. He frowned to himself as he walked back towards his players. He had no idea she'd been upset so much by his words, he was equally upset with her, interpreting her as a racist wasn't something he enjoyed, but had to come to grips with. As Lana bounded over to him, he turned to speak to her as she pulled on his jersey to share a word with him. He frowned to her, "Lana, if you heard what she'd said to me, you'd have presumed she was racist to not having known her," He defended himself, "I'm as entitled to my opinion as any other ass in this bloody gym, or school," He said to her before she went on her way back to her cheer friends.

He continued to play for a little bit before they broke, and reminded each other that they were having that party later. He went home, and showered up again, getting ready for the party later in the evening. He threw on jeans, a pair of white sneakers from Nike called Air Forces, and his favorite Metal Militia t-shirt. He sprayed himself with some cologne, intending to get what he'd said to Mia earlier off his mind with tonight's party. Taking several pre-drinking shots as he got ready, he made sure he was buzzed before leaving his house for the night.

[Khat]

She arrived at the party and she sure was getting some looks from the guys. She ignored them and made her way inside to find Lana, this was the first ever party she had attended during her entire time at Uni, she never went to the Freshers Fair or anything of the sort. So this was the first time anyone but Lana had seen her in her 'party' clothes. She took two shots from a passing waiter person, she wasn't sure if they were a waiter or not but they had a tray of shots and were walking around offering them, so she took advantage of it. She downed both shots, one after the other. She hated parties and massive crowds of people... unless it was a concert then it was different. She knew she would have to be a little drunk tonight to deal with all these people.

As soon as she found Lana, Lana gave her a hug and gave her boobs a squeeze "These are on show tonight!" she laughed. Mia smiled and laughed a little, she could see Lana was already drunk. She turned into a bit of a lesbian after a few drinks. They had made out as well as some 'heavy petting' when they were both drunk at a high school party. Lana dragged her to the 'dance room' which was essentially a living room with all the furniture pushed aside and a disco ball with a DJ playing music. Lana begun dancing and Mia laughed as she joined in. Both of them had their hands on each other and were grinding against each other. They were getting quite a male audience. Mia was actually enjoying herself, which surprised her considering today had been nothing but dreadful.

[Filisalot]

The frat parties the girls always held in their house was nothing less than excellent, even Brady had to admit as he mingled around in the crowd, cheering his beer neck with people he barely knew, and downing back as much as they could before the night was over. Nothing was like this, and it's why he loved living the college life. He was with a few people he knew from the other teams on schools campus, in the kitchen refueling their drinks. He grabbed himself another beer, and cracked it open. Turning around, they walked towards the dance-hall, the living-room the girls basically never used, the furniture inside of it probably would have dust all over it if there wasn't people sitting on them to regain their breath from dancing so much.

Walking into the dance-room, he noticed a decent crowd of guys watching something, and he shrugged his shoulders as he kept going, scoping to see if any of the girls he'd talked to before would dance with him. As he went through the floor, he had to break his way through the group of guys, and was absolutely stunned at what he saw on the other side of it, Lana, and Mia being complete girls, and he grinned to himself as he took a sip of beer. He figured he might as well apologize to the girl, Lana was probably right anyways. He took one more sip as he approached the two ladies who were dancing, "Excuse me, Lana and Mia," He said to the two girls, keeping his hands off them as he reached them. "I was wondering if I could share a few quick words with you two beautiful ladies," He said, looking from Lana, and then to Mia, his peripheral vision gave him a decent look at what she was wearing, and he'd have to remember to try and get those off her later, he thought, making a mental note.

[Khat]

Mia frowned as she saw Brady coming and she tapped Lana and pointed. She looked around and also gave him a frown. They stopped dancing as he got closer and Mia folded her arms angrily, as she did so it pushed her boobs up more. "Oh? I'm a beautiful lady now? I thought I was a racist?" She growled nastily at the boy. She really didn't want to be breathing the same air as this arsehole. Lana gave Mia a sympathetic look before looking back at Brady "What do you want Brady?" Lana asked trying to sound nice but she was irritated too. Mia wanted nothing more than to punch him right now, but she figured she would wait and hear him out first. Depending on what he said, would depend on whether he got a black eye. Mia stood there, waiting to hear what this douche bag had to say.

[Filisalot]

He had to bite his tongue to hold him back from saying something to Mia as she crossed her arms, and scolded him. He looked to Lana as she asked what he'd wanted from the two of them, "I was taking this chance to say to you Mia, that I was wrong about you," He said, his eyes sincere as he spoke to her, "I over-reacted and chose a easy way to interpret your words, if you're willing to forgive me, could I get you two a drink, or two to show I'm actually sorry?" He said, "I felt bad after you left, and realized I'd messed up, badly," He said to her.

He stood there, looking from Mia, to Lana and back to Mia again, "I want to make it right, Mia," He said to her.

[Khat]

Mia's harsh frown slowly softened and turned into a small annoyed but 'yeah alright' kinda smile. "Sure, I'll have whatever so long as it isn't beer, same for Lana" she gestured to her now happily smiling friend. "We'll be sat down over there" She pointed to the pushed aside sofa. Her and Lana walked off and Lana giggled as they sat down. Mia looked at her with a quizzical look. Lana smiled "I think Brady has the hots for you" she laughed. Mia scoffed. "Yeah right and I'm an astronaut" she said shaking her head. "Nooo! I'm serious" Lana pleaded. Mia raised a brow at her. "Why would a guy like him like a girl like me? I eat dogs, do witchcraft and kill children, he is a jock" she said yawning slightly as she reeled off her 'stereotype'. Lana rolled her eyes "We're still friends, and we are the opposite" She said poking Mia in the boob. Mia rubbed where she prodded as it hurt a little "I guess, but we have been friends since we are like... 3? So it's kinda different" She said in defence.

[Filisalot]

Brady smiled as Mia's mood lightened at his offer, glad his apology had worked and relieved that they'd be able to work out some form of peace. "Yeah, I'll figure something out for the two of you, I think I could make something you'll like," He said to her genuinely. He let her drag her friend away to the couch where they'd be sitting. He turned and headed back into the rest of the party to make his way to the kitchen. Looking through what he could make for the girls, he decided to pour some raspberry juice into a glass with some vodka mixed into it.

His beer was about half-empty, and he couldn't help himself but to finish his own drink off and fill up a glass from the keg that was there before heading back out to the girls at their couch. Reaching them with their drinks, he sat down beside Mia, passing her the drink before passing the other one over to Lana, "I call it the Russian berry," He said. He'd stayed away long enough to have had some time to themselves to talk to each other, he'd made sure of that since he noticed the two of them probably had to talk about what he'd done after what he did earlier that day.

"I'm glad to see you here Mia, Lana's a good friend of yours," He said to her, nodding to Lana behind her who'd defended her friend earlier that day, he figured she'd had to have done it before as well, simply defending her friend.

[Khat]

Mia smiled as she took her drink from Brady and she sniffed it, it certainly smelt good. She took a sip and nodded "Tastes nice" She said smiling at him. She laughed a little when he mentioned Lana was a goof friend. She nodded "Yeah, she's nod bad for a cheerleader" she said laughing and Lana pulled a face. "Not bad? I think you will find Mia that I am awesome!" She laughed as she took a drink of her Russian Berry. Lana stood "Well! I am off to go dance! I shall see you soon Mia" She said in almost a sing song voice and winked at her as she left Mia alone with Brady.

Mia shook her head and continued to drink. She turned and looked at Brady. "So, why did you think I was being racist? Do you get called a monkey often or something?" she asked laughing a little as she took another drink, she really liked it.

[Filisalot]

He grinned as she teased her friend, "Hey, for a cheerleader she was havin' to keep up with your dance-moves," He teased back to her after Lana had said she was off back to the races, and headed out to talk to a few people she knew there. Smiling at Mia as she laughed from his silly joke, he blushed at her question, "Well, I did get called a monkey a few times, and I just figured that's what you meant to me instead of an actual monkey, being that you and I haven't really... Mingled," He said to her, trying to find the right word to describe the lack of talking they'd done their first day of meeting each other.

"I mean, just looking at you I should've figured that a racist was probably on the list of things you aren't," He said to her. He noticed she'd sipped the drink a few times, and he knew that she probably liked it, "Should drink with me more often... I make drinks so well, a few people think I'm probably gay because of it," He smiled. "And don't tell me that you're homophobic instead of racist," He winked playfully.